SCITUATE – With enrollment at the high school expected to surpass 900 students next school year, the Early Childhood Center will pack up this summer and find a new home at Wampatuck Elementary School.

The Early Childhood Center, the district’s preschool program, is now located in a wing in the high school due to a lack of adequate space at the town’s four elementary schools.

“The program started at Wampatuck many years ago, and the only reason it moved up here is because we had the room,” said Paul Dolan, Scituate Public School’s director of business and finance. “Now the program is going back to its roots.”

While high school enrollment is expected to grow during the next few years, administrators project that enrollment will decline at the five other schools, creating room for the preschool program.

Town meeting voters approved $200,000 on April 14 to fund the relocation of the Early Childhood Center, as recommended in an evaluation of the district’s special education programs. The funding will cover architectural and design fees, renovation of bathrooms for accessibility, construction of office space and other renovations.

Superintendent John McCarthy said moving the program will give the staff and students greater access to programs, activities, support services and other primary-school-aged children.

Dolan said the transition will begin when the school year wraps up on June 20, and administrators are currently finishing their plans for how to configure the space.

“The rooms are there and the (Wampatuck) principal is welcoming and ready for it,” Dolan said. “She feels it’s a very good idea and the perfect place, plus they had some room.”

Wampatuck Elementary School Principal Linda Whitney previous served as the director of the Early Childhood Center, Dolan said, which prepared her to welcome the program into her school.

Dolan said the space vacated by the preschool program will be used as typical classroom space for the growing high school.